Irritus Quotes & Sayings

Remember, you must never use your position to lord it over the heathen. Instead you must humble yourself and earn their respect though your own quiet faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. The missionary must seek nothing for himself, no seat of honor or hope of fame. Like the cabhorse in London, each of you must wear blinkers that blind you to every danger and to every snare and conceit. You must be content to suffer, to die, and to be forgotten. -Count Zinzendorf — Janet & Geoff Benge

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do. — Richard Foreman

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became. — Eric Schlosser

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration. — Jim Gaffigan

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole. — John W. Snow

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it. — Wendell Berry

There are no demands - undue demands ... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not? ... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation. — Jakaya Kikwete

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick